Reply to: Traders predict house prices will fall by 50% in four years

[TheBigYinJames]

why would you take a marginal pay cut when you'd be 40% more productive and saving the client on office space. time for a rate rise in my opinion.

I wasn't talking about contractors.

[BigTime]

Well, I expect people would take a marginal pay cut if they didn't have to travel into work, especiallys ince oil/transport is getting more expensive by the week. Desk bound workers could be as cheap as Indian workers (and be allowed to keep their own names) if they were allowed to do it from hom.

why would you take a marginal pay cut when you'd be 40% more productive and saving the client on office space. time for a rate rise in my opinion.

[Platypus]

Well, I expect people would take a marginal pay cut if they didn't have to travel into work, especiallys ince oil/transport is getting more expensive by the week. Desk bound workers could be as cheap as Indian workers (and be allowed to keep their own names) if they were allowed to do it from hom.

But the government would lose tax revenue on fuel. And that revenue has increased sharply in recent weeks. I don't expect to see this government implement any green policies, just to collect the tax for them.

[expat]

With the managers in them.

And then hang them.

[TheBigYinJames]

Hang the managers. And crush their cars.

With the managers in them.

[expat]

I think the single biggest thing Labour could do to help traffic congestion, the environment, people's cost of living, and wellbeing would be to penalise companies who refuse to let desk-bound employees work from home.

Hang the managers. And crush their cars.

[TheBigYinJames]

Wouldn't home workers produce more rubbish though? I mean literally, as in more bin bags.

Just don't give them printers.

There is already software to measure the productivity of workers - it analyses their keypresses, and other activity, measures long pauses in activity, etc. For creative types, like designer/developers, longer pauses between keypresses might be expected (and allowed by the software)

I'd just tie the mouse to the cat, and let it walk on my keyboard, then go out for a round of golf.

[Marina]

Well, I expect people would take a marginal pay cut if they didn't have to travel into work, especiallys ince oil/transport is getting more expensive by the week. Desk bound workers could be as cheap as Indian workers (and be allowed to keep their own names) if they were allowed to do it from hom.

Wouldn't home workers produce more rubbish though? I mean literally, as in more bin bags. So they'd be charged extra for that, and they'd be using more gas and electricity at home.

Maybe there's a market for internet-cafe-like mixed-company offices where people from different companies can work at PCs and there are webcams etc so their bosses can keep an eye on their presence and talk with them.

[TheBigYinJames]

India

Well, I expect people would take a marginal pay cut if they didn't have to travel into work, especiallys ince oil/transport is getting more expensive by the week. Desk bound workers could be as cheap as Indian workers (and be allowed to keep their own names) if they were allowed to do it from hom.

[sasguru]

I think the single biggest thing Labour could do to help traffic congestion, the environment, people's cost of living, and wellbeing would be to penalise companies who refuse to let desk-bound employees work from home.

India

[HairyArsedBloke]

Never going to get support for that from nuLieBore. For a start there is the control thing. Can’t have people getting up to things without having an overseer. Then there are problems with the quality of housing. The more time the people spend there the more they will want from it in terms of space and functionality. Can’t have any of that either.

[TheBigYinJames]

Quite rational too. If you want to tax something you have to make sure that it remains around to continue to generate revenue. The rich are more able to leave than the poor; so it is better to target the poor than the rich.
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I think the single biggest thing Labour could do to help traffic congestion, the environment, people's cost of living, and wellbeing would be to penalise companies who refuse to let desk-bound employees work from home.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Quite rational too. If you want to tax something you have to make sure that it remains around to continue to generate revenue. The rich are more able to leave than the poor; so it is better to target the poor than the rich.
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[TheBigYinJames]

That's good
Alternatively, like that famous quote from the novel Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons, maybe there's something nasty in the woodshed.

There is. Gordon Brown is a quick and surprising return to a heavy tax culture. Only this time he's taxing the middle and lower classes instead of the super rich.

[Marina]

Someone described him taking over the PM role as like having an old uncle who is working away in the garden shed for years, building something, and he won't say what it is. One day, after many years, you look through the window, and.. there's nothing there.

I'd like to think they were working towards some sort of a plan, even if it was "we're going to get gubbed, so let's fsck it up for the Tories"

That's good

Alternatively, like that famous quote from the novel Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons, maybe there's something nasty in the woodshed.